Apache Axis 2 Architecture Question

[Anthony Bull <an...@bcsoft.co.nz>]

Hi, I have a question regarding the architecture of my Axis 2 client 
applications.

Application description:
We are using the WS-Security username token header to authenticate and 
identify users making requests to a web service. There are hundreds of 
different users using the system, and we need to log their user details 
on the Axis 2 web service, hence we need each user to have different 
identities coming through in the SOAP requests.  The client for the 
service is a struts webapp.

The question:
In order to support multiple users with different identities I need to 
create a stub to the service for each client (e.g. load a configuration 
context and then create a service stub to the service) - thus if 100 
users are using the client at the same time, there will be 100 service 
stubs in use at that point in time - this is because the user 
authentication is related to the stub (via the Options object) not to 
the individual methods.  Is this the correct way of doing things in such 
a situation?  It seems that it was intended for a given client site to 
only have one service stub to serve all the users using that client 
site. If its wrong, how should I be doing things?  Is it possible to 
alter the user authentication details when a request goes out in a 
multi-threaded situation without making the code block?

cheers,
Ants.

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Re: Apache Axis 2 Architecture Question

[Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>]

Anthony,

Can you please cross post to rampart-dev@

thanks,
dims

On 8/9/07, Anthony Bull <an...@bcsoft.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi, I have a question regarding the architecture of my Axis 2 client
> applications.
>
> Application description:
> We are using the WS-Security username token header to authenticate and
> identify users making requests to a web service. There are hundreds of
> different users using the system, and we need to log their user details
> on the Axis 2 web service, hence we need each user to have different
> identities coming through in the SOAP requests.  The client for the
> service is a struts webapp.
>
> The question:
> In order to support multiple users with different identities I need to
> create a stub to the service for each client (e.g. load a configuration
> context and then create a service stub to the service) - thus if 100
> users are using the client at the same time, there will be 100 service
> stubs in use at that point in time - this is because the user
> authentication is related to the stub (via the Options object) not to
> the individual methods.  Is this the correct way of doing things in such
> a situation?  It seems that it was intended for a given client site to
> only have one service stub to serve all the users using that client
> site. If its wrong, how should I be doing things?  Is it possible to
> alter the user authentication details when a request goes out in a
> multi-threaded situation without making the code block?
>
> cheers,
> Ants.
>
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> Anthony
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> Anthony Bull
> Senior Developer
> Black Coffee Software Ltd
> PO Box 10-192 The Terrace
> Wellington, New Zealand
>
> anthony.bull@bcsoft.co.nz
> Ph  +64 4 472 8818
> Fax +64 4 472 8811
> Mobile 021 303 692
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